Strategy

Our general strategy was to explore as many territories in the first 10 seconds (since there was a 20 point bonus per territory during this period), then avoid our opponent and mine as many resources as possible, depositing everything into our goal right before the end of the two-minute match. Initially motivated by Mock Competition 1 (which only involved moving to points), we planned to optimized our speed by limiting our robot to 90 degree turns (i.e., switching directions and moving backwards whenever a turn exceeded 90 degrees). However, this strategy proved unhelpful once our arm and gearbox-spinning mechanism were implemented, and was thus eliminated.